Jeremiah 38:7-9

International Standard Version

Jeremiah Rescued from the Cistern

⁷ Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch^[a] in the king’s house, heard that Jeremiah had been put in the cistern. The king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate, ⁸ so Ebed-melech went out of the palace and spoke to the king: ⁹ “Your majesty,^[b] these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to the prophet Jeremiah by throwing him into the cistern. He will die where he is because of the famine since there is no more bread in the city.”